GIMP
 GIMP stands for
the
GNU Image Manipulation Program, a freely
distributed program for photo retouching, image composition and image
authoring.
It has a large feature set. It can be used as a simple paint
program,
an
expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing
system, a mass production image renderer, an image format
converter, etc.
GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with
plug-ins and extensions. The advanced
scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the
most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
GIMP 2.4.5
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Price
Free to download
Size
17.0 MB
License
GNU General Public License
Developer
First version written by Peter Mattis and Spencer
Kimball. Thousands of individauls have contributed since.
Website
www.gimp.org
System Requirements
pkg-config >=0.15.0
GTK+ 2.10.13
GLib 2.12.3
Pango >=1.12.2
ATK 1.6.1
FreeType2 2.1.7
Fontconfig 2.2.2
libart2 2.x
dbus-glib
Support
Sites:
GIMP Wiki, GUG
Tutorials, Tutorials
Pointer Page, carol.gimp.org,
Gimp
stuff, gimps.de,
Mailing
Lists
Selected
Reviews:
PC
Magazine, Penguin
Pete's Blog, NewsForge,
blogspot,
Ciao,
Softpedia
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Features include:
- A full suite of painting tools including brushes, a pencil,
an airbrush, cloning, etc.
- Tile-based memory management, so image size is limited only
by available disk space
- Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high-quality
anti-aliasing
- Full Alpha channel support for working with transparency
- Layers and channels
- Scalable Brushes
- Fullscreen Editing
- Color Management and Soft-proofing
- A procedural database for calling internal GIMP functions
from external programs, such as Script-Fu
- Advanced scripting capabilities
- Multiple undo/redo
- Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
- File formats supported include GIF, JPEG, PNG, XPM, TIFF,
TGA, MPEG, PS, PDF, PCX, BMP and many others
- Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy,
bezier and intelligent
- Plug-ins that allow for the easy addition of new file
formats and new effect filters
- Support for vector layers using the GFig plug-in
- Support for various input devices out of the box. Pressure
and
tilt sensitive tablets, but also a wide range of USB or MIDI
controllers.
Last Updated Thursday, April 24 2008 @ 02:43 PM EDT
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